- David Compton: Vesta, you know I hardly ever see you these days.
- Vesta Compton: We had a perfectly good look at each other at breakfast.
- Deloryce: Madame, I'm sorry you gave yourself the trouble of coming here. There's nothing more to be said.
- Vesta Compton: Oh yes there is. This matter must be settled satisfactorily.
- Deloryce: For you.
- Vesta Compton: For both of us.
- Deloryce: Perhaps.
- Vesta Compton: When men have an affair to settle, they come together, man to man. Now I have left my pride at home. And I come to you, without prejudice, to talk to you as woman to woman.